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The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Kenya. Prior to the 11th Parliament, it had served as the unicameral legislature of the country. It has a total of 349 seats; 290 elected from the constituencies, 47 women elected from the counties and 12 nominated representatives. The speaker serves as an ex officio member. ==Committees== House Keeping Committees * House Business Committee: Parliamentary Calendar – scheduling or programming of the business – issue directives and guidelines to prioritise or postpone any business of the House * Procedure and House Rules Committee: propose rules for the orderly and effective conduct of committee business * Liaison Committee: guide and co-ordinate the operations, policies and mandates of all Committees * Committee on Selection: nominates members to serve in Committees * Catering and Health Club Committee Standing Committees * Committee on Appointments: In the absence of the Speaker, the Committee elects a member, from amongst its members to chair the meeting * Public Accounts Committee: responsible for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriations of the sum voted by the House to meet the public expenditure and of such other accounts * Public Investments Committee: examine the reports and accounts of the public investments * Budget and Appropriations Committee: investigate, inquire into and report on all matters related to co-ordination, control and monitoring of the national budget – examine the Budget Policy Statement – examine Bills related to the national budget * Committee on Implementation: responsible for scrutinising the resolutions of the House (including adopted committee reports), petitions and the undertakings given by the National Executive * Committee on Delegated Legislation: delegate on statutory instruments submitted to the Assembly * Committee on Regional Integration: examine the records of all the relevant debates and resolutions of the meetings of the East African Legislative Assembly – inquire into and examine any other matter relating to regional integration generally requiring action by the House Departmental Committees * Defence and Foreign Relations Committee: Defence, intelligence, foreign relations diplomatic and consular services, international boundaries, international relations, agreements, treaties and conventions * Administration and National Security Committee: National security, police services, home affairs, Public Administration, Public Service, Prisons, Immigration and the management of natural disasters, community service orders * Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Committee: Agriculture, livestock, irrigation, fisheries development, co-operatives development, production and marketing. * Environment and Natural Resources Committee: Matters relating to climate change, environment management and conservation, forestry, water resource management, wildlife, mining and natural resources, pollution and waste management. * Education, Research and Technology Committee: Education, training, research and technological advancement. * Energy, Communication and Information Committee: Fossil fuels exploration, Development, production, maintenance and regulation of energy, communication, information, broadcasting and Information Communications Technology (ICT) development and management. * Finance, Planning and Trade Committee: Public finance, monetary policies, public debt, financial institutions, investment and divestiture policies, pricing policies, banking, insurance, population, revenue policies, planning, national development, trade, tourism promotion and management, commerce and industry. * Health Committee: Matters related to health, medical care and health insurance. * Justice and Legal Affairs Committee: Constitutional affairs, the administration of law and justice, including the Judiciary, public prosecutions, elections, ethics, integrity and anti-corruption and human rights. * Labour and Social Welfare Committee: Labour, trade union relations, manpower or human resource planning, gender, culture and social welfare, youth, National Youth Service children’s welfare; national heritage, betting, lotteries and sports. * Lands Committee: Matters related to lands and settlement. * Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee: Transport, roads, public works, construction and maintenance of roads, rails and buildings, air, seaports and housing. Other Committees * Committee on Constituency Development Fund * Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee * Pensions Committee Joint Committees of the Senate and National Assembly * Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity * Joint Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library Committee 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Assembly (Kenya)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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